Mexican 2 -Diamonds

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An opening bid of two diamonds to shw a balanced hand of 19-21 points. Invented by Rosenkranz of Mexico City. The 2-D bid is part of Rosenkranz Romex system, as are the responses.

The Mexican 2d opening bid was a part of the original ROmex system, in which an opening bid of 1nt artificially showed an unbalanced 18-21 (i trick short of a 2c opener, basically) and 2d showed a balanced 19-21 (to complete the limitation of opening 1 bids to roughly 18 hcps).

In the current version of Romex, the 19-20 point balanced hands are handled through the artificial 1nt opener (which no longer guarentees an unbalanced hand) and the 2d bid has gone through several different adjustments.

The responses to the older 2d (=19-21 flat) also went through some modification. At first, responses were transfer/puppets. 2h meant signoff in spades or invitational in NT, 2s meant signoff in NT or GF, and bids of 2nt+ were slam try transfers to the next higher suit. Then, responses showed points (2h=0-4, 2s=5-10, 2nt=11+).

Source: Root & Pavlicek's Modern Bridge Conventions; Henry Sun

 

The most important Bridge Bidding Conventions

• Walsh Relays
• Walsh Transfer System
• Mexican 2 Diamonds
• Nilsland Defense
• Tartan Two Bids
• Minor Suit Stayman - 2D response to 1NT
• Minor Suit Stayman - 2S response to 1NT
• Minor Suit Swiss
• Two Way New Minor Forcing/XY Notrump rebids
• Eastern Cue-Bid
• Western Cue-Bid
• Romex Trial Suit Bids with Power
• 2c Open

 

 

 

 

 

 

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A bidding convention is an agreement between two players on a different meaning of a bid in the card game bridge. These agreements are made so that partners can more quickly determine which contract, with both their cards, they can win together. Often, conventions are forged together into one, which is then called a bidding system.

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